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Well obviously mental health isn't a good enough medical reason, duh. You should carry that sacred fetus rape baby til birth and then either parent it or place it for adoption. Don't like it? Shouldn't have been raped dumb dumb!

There are many women who have become pregnant as a result of rape and choose to either keep the baby or carry it to term and give it up for adoption. As the victim of sexual assult myself, I can safely say that I would not be able to do that. If I had become pregnant because of what happened to me, I would not have been able to terminate quickly enough. It would have made me sick to my stomach to know that there was still part of that a**hole inside of me. I wouldn't see it as a miracle, like I would if my df and I got pregnant now. I would see it as a parasite and a constant reminder of what happened.

I don't think anyone has the right to say what a woman who was raped should do if she becomes pregnant because of it. No one can possibly understand how she feels or what she has been through. She needs complete support and compassion and not one bit of judgement even if she makes a choice that others think they would not.

I am very strongly politically pro-choice, but personally opposed to abortion for myself. As such, there would have been a time in my personal life where if that were to have happened to me I probably really would have CTT, but to be completely honest, I don't know as though I would now as an almost 37 year old mother of three. (In fact, I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't.) I think my own mental health, and the mental health of my family, would be a HUGE consideration and definitely a "legitimate" medical reason for abortion to be viable in that circumstance. And frankly, this exact debate is one of the main reasons I am so vocal on my pro-choice stance.

I am very strongly politically pro-choice, but personally opposed to abortion for my self.

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This is me too. I can think of very few reasons I would terminate a pregnancy. I don't even think I would do it due to being raped after struggling to conceive for so long, but I have never been through anything like that so I have no clue how it would affect me. Just because I might not do something doesn't mean other people shouldn't have the right to choose to do it. And just because I wouldn't do it doesn't mean MY choice is the right or wrong one. It's just MY choice. As it should be.

I think some men, and even some women are just scared of the whole ability to create and grow human life. They want to conrol something that is intimidating to them. Women have all the power in this regard, and I think that is frightening to some. IDK. I just think it's heinous to pass judgment on somebody for doing something that was the best decision for them at the time. I get that abortion seems like a horrible thing to some people, but that is why you have a choice. If you don't think abortion is morally acceptable, don't have one. But it is very hypocritical to spout out religious rethoric out of one side of your mouth, and judgmental, controlling crap out of the other.

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~Katie~Married to the love of my life~One beautiful son~Questioning Circumcision?